Covered with your next question: if i need to order media, download iso files, prepare a USB for boot, i will do it.i just need to have the process. As mentioned above, all new drives are setup for Windows. if i have a new hard drive, or is damaged, what is the oficial process to setup a Fresh installation of Mavericks?įirst and foremost is preparing the drive for the Mac. Mavericks is legal for you to install on as many Macs as you own in your own household.

So for example, you can go right from SL to Mavericks without having to install Mountain Lion first. Any version of OS X which is Snow Leopard (10.6.x) or newer can be upgraded to Mavericks without having to purchase and install anything in between. That is true, but there should have already been something on the Mac. I bougth this licence maybe by error, because in my understanding, Mavericks is for free, but you have to have the previous version running. So you need to first completely repartition the new drive with a GUID partition map and formatted as Mac OS Extended. All new drives come with the partition map as Master Boot Record (Windows) and formatted as either FAT32 or NTFS (also Windows). You can use Disk Utility to do that, or the either of two highly respected third party apps SuperDuper!, or Carbon Copy Cloner. If that's not acceptable, please let us know so we can spend our time helping someone who appreciates the effort.Īll you need to do is clone your current install of Mavericks to the new drive. This is a user to user help forum where many very knowledgable people give their personal time for free to help others. What blog? A blog is where one individual gives their opinion on various, or a confined number of topics. So why did you bother purchasing Mountain Lion? You didn't need it. You're already running Mavericks, which we would presume means you also already purchased it through your App Store ID (despite being free, you still have to 'purchase' your own copy of Mavericks under your account). but i waste a lot of time in 'unofficial' blogs. So i bought the licence, i want to do it with the 'official' process. I have a 128 HD SSD with mavericks running fine.Īnd i want to install another hard drive more big than this.

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